I am a 29 year old woman. Fit and healthy, apart from the issues touched upon below.
For years (at least 5/6) I have been experiencing the same issues. Chronic pain, especially in my hips and legs. Shaking hands. Losing all vision in one eye. Extreme fatigue, where I could sleep for a full day and still wake up feeling like I hadn't slept. Using the wrong words, slurring my speech. Forgetting what I'm talking about, what I'm doing, where I'm going, where I am. These are just some of the issues, and are pertinent to the story... They come and go. But the period of this happening increases frequency and duration as time goes on...
These issues have now become unbearable and have been for some time. I have been to my GP surgery many times. Always the same. Book an appointment for blood tests and book another appointment when the symptoms present. My bloods always come back fine. I am told to take paracetamol for pain. And whenever I call because I feel the symptoms coming on again, I have to wait another 3 weeks to be seen by which time the symptoms have ceased... Every. Single. Time.
I am not being listened to. At all. My mother has MS. Many people have asked me if I have a chronic illness because of how I am. And each time I have to say no, I don't know, because nobody listens.
I don't make this up. I wish I was. Because I would love to live without daily pain and exhaustion. But if I'm constantly fobbed off by GPs and nurse practitioners, what else am I supposed to do? It's not difficult to listen. It's not difficult to be treated with the slightest shred of respect and decency. And it certainly should not be difficult to even attempt to diagnose a patient. Surely that's a better option than leaving a 29 year old mother in pain every day.
All I want is to be listened to. To try and figure out what the hell is wrong with me. I know my own body, and something is very wrong. Why can't anyone see that? I just want to be heard. I want to be listened to.
"Not being listened to"
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